Of course the chums went with her, wondering about the excitement at the boathouse and what could have caused it.
They soon found themselves in a crowd of students surging eagerly to meet the party from the boathouse.
"Girls!" cried an advance envoy of the latter, "something dreadful has happened! The boathouse and the gym have both been broken into!"
It took a moment for the hearers to digest this astounding bit of news.
"You mean thieves?" some one cried.
"I'll say it was thieves!" cried several girls in chorus.
"Some of our swimming and gym suits have been taken!" cried another girl, her voice shrill above the din.
"And my tennis racket and a whole new set of balls!" wailed another.
"Doris Maybel, when did this happen?" Jessie Robinson elbowed her way into the throng. "Does Miss Jane know about it, yet?"
"I don't suppose so," said Doris, answering the last question first. "And it must have been last night that it happened, because some one has been about all day——"